Roman Polanski
has decided to make a movie on Pompeii and he is already starting
the resumptions. At Giffoni Film
Festival,
edition 2007, speak about the project: “That about Pompeii is an
independent production, it doesn't involve a big studios, it is an
all European production”. (Continues
...)
The restored Lupanare returns to its ancient shine
The Lupanare in
Pompeii was discovered in 1862 and it immediately was restored; the
second time it was restored was in 1949. At the beginning of 2001 a
project was prepared for the restoration of it and it ended just
lately. (Continues
...)
New techniques of control against the degrade
Inside the Lupanare
in Pompeii recently restored it has been installed a system with
sensory to infrared rays for the survey of people. There are two
levels of control: one of the surfaces and another of the influx of
visitors. (Continues
...)
A
terrifying eruption 4000 long years before Pompeii
Till now we
believed that the most violent eruption at the Vesuvius
has been the one in Pompeii,
in 79 AD, but a search
points out a more serious event in the
Bronze Age (3780B.C.)
(Continues
...)
Had
Romans already been in America?
Entering
in the House of the Ephebe, on the lararium on the right it is
represented a sacrifice’s scene: the Genius that makes the sacrifice
is represented in the action of making an unusual offer, a fruit of
pineapple.(Continues
...)
Discovered the villa where August died
The Roman patricians had chosen this area, Campania Felix, to build
these luxurious villas to pass their time in peace, far away from
clamor of the political life and from noisy Rome.
(Continues
...)
Other discoveries in the Villa of August
The archaeologists of Japanese scientific mission, coordinated by
professor Masanori Aoyagi of Tokyo
started since 2001 excavations of the villa dated back to the I
century b.C.. (Continues
...)
Ma
tu vulive ’a pizza … ca’ pummarola ’ncoppa!
(Would
you like pizza … with tomato sauce!)
Even in Roman time pizza
was eated; there are traces in a Latin small poem of 123 verses, the Moretum,
belonging to Virgilio but, probably, it is Settimio Severo’s (or
Serene). (Continues
...)
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